食花生

Chinese

		eat; food; to feed eat; food; to feed; animal feed	peanut
trad. (食花生)		食	花生
simp. #(食花生)		食	花生

Etymology

From an advertisement of Planters, with the slogan 食住花生等睇戲 (sik⁶ zyu⁶ faa¹ sang¹ dang² tai² hei³, “Let's have some peanuts while watching movies”).

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sik⁶ faa¹ sang¹

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: sik⁶ faa¹ sang¹
    • Yale: sihk fā sāng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sik⁹ faa¹ sang¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: xig⁶ fa¹ seng¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɪk̚² faː⁵⁵ sɐŋ⁵⁵/

Verb

食⫽花生 (verb-object)

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, slang) to watch the excitement; to go where the crowds are

Synonyms

• 看熱鬧／看热闹 (kàn rènao)
• 吃瓜 (chīguā)